Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809–19 April 1882) is considered the most important English naturalist of all time. He established the theories of natural selection and evolution. His theory of evolution was published as On the Origin of Species in 1859, and by the 1870s is was widely accepted as fact.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as

Charles F. Haanel

Charles F. Haanel (1866–1949) was an American author, philosopher, and entrepreneur. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Haanel's timeless teachings on personal development and success have left an indelible mark on the self-help genre. His deep insights into the power of the mind and universal principles continue to inspire countless individuals on

Charles Graeber

Charles Graeber is a former medical student, a contributing editor to Wired, and also contributes to publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Vogue, and many others. He has received many awards, and his work has been featured on NPR, CNN, the BBC, and numerous other

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was a clergyman and novelist whose work was wide-ranging in its scope – from historical romances to social critiques to children’s books. His most popular novel, The Water Babies gave Kingsley the opportunity to explore social reform and the theory of evolution in the guise of a children’s

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Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, the fifth son of wealthy parents. He was sent to a prestigious school and aged twenty-three, after a fleeting attendance at the University of Orléans, became a lawyer. Abandoning this career, he became an author and in doing so created the genre

Charles R. Lister

CHARLES R. LISTER is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center. He was formerly head of the Middle East and North Africa section at the London-based IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.

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Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sister authors. Her novels are considered masterpieces of English literature – the most famous of which is Jane Eyre.

Charlotte Cho

Charlotte Cho is the co-founder and CEO of Soko Glam, a Korean beauty and lifestyle site and online store of Korean beauty products. She has been featured as an expert on Korean beauty in national and international publications including New York Times, Elle, Elle Germany, Marie Claire, Allure, Harper’s Bazaar

Charlotte Hawkes

Born and raised on the Wirral Peninsula, England, Charlotte Hawkes is mum to two intrepid boys who love her to play building block games with them and who object loudly to the amount of time she spends on the computer. When she isn't writing-or building with blocks-she is company director

Charu Nivedita

Charu Nivedita is the author of more than sixty works in Tamil, ranging from collections of essays to novels, anthologies of poetry to short stories. Known as a postmodern, transgressive writer, he is most interested in autofiction and metafiction. He is best known for the novel Zero Degree, which was

Chase Jarvis

Chase Jarvis is a well known photographer and entrepreneur. As a photographic master, he is regularly cited as one of the most influential photographers of the past decade, having won numerous awards from Prix de la Photographie de Paris, The Addys, The Lions, Digiday, The Advertising Photographers of America, and

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Cheryl Rao

Cheryl Rao loves the thrill of travel and strange happenings and animals and adventures, which is why she writes stories about all these for children of all ages. Her recent published works include Dragons, Mermaids & Ghosts, Grandpa Finds a Friend and Other Rags Stories, Stay Out of the Basement

Chester Brown

Chester Brown lives in Toronto where he ran for Parliament in the general election as a member of the Libertarian Party of Canada. Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. In his 1992 book, The Playboy, he explored his personal history with pornography. His

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is the author of thirteen bestselling books. His books have remained bestsellers since their release. Five out of his eight novels have already been adapted into successful Bollywood films, including ‘3 Idiots' and ‘2 States', and the others are in the process of being adapted as well. The

Chhavi Bhardwaj

Chhimi Tenduf-La

Half Tibetan, half English, Chhimi Tenduf-La has lived in Sri Lanka, on and off, for thirty years. Educated at Eton and Durham, he runs an international school in Colombo, teaches economics and provides university counselling. He has written plays, and fiction for local publications. His first book, The Amazing Racist,

Chidanand Rajghatta

CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA is the author of The Horse That Flew: How India'sSilicon Gurus Spread their Wings, and IlliberalIndia: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason. He is foreign editor and U.S.bureau chief at theTimes ofIndia and one of the longestserving foreign correspondents in Washington, DC. In earlier roles, Rajghattahas worked with India's leading brands,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Entertainment Weekly

Chindu Sreedharan

Chindu Sreedharan is an accidental academic, a journalist who strayed into academia and stayed. He worked for The Sunday Observer, Rediff.com and India Abroad before moving to the UK in 2003. A severe social media addict, he now teaches and researches journalism at Bournemouth University, England. Chindu blogs at chindu.net

Chinmay Tumbe

Chinmay Tumbe is passionate about migration, cities and history, and is currently a faculty member at IIM Ahmedabad. He is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and IIM Bangalore, and has been a faculty member at TISS, Hyderabad. His first book, India Moving: A History

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 in Nigeria. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. In June 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, activist and teacher of writing. Her work has been published widely, in magazines and anthologies, and her books have been translated into twenty-nine languages. Several of her works have been made into films and plays. Her last novel was the

Chitra Viraraghavan

Chitra Viraraghavan was educated in Hyderabad, Kodaikanal, Madras and Boston. She has been a book editor,written school textbooks and taughtEnglish. The Americans is her first novel.

Chitralekha Zutshi

Chitralekha Zutshi is Class of 1962 Professor of History at William & Mary, Virginia, where she specializes in the history of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. Her areas of expertise include nationalism, regional and religious identities and traditions of historical thought and writing, with a particular focus on Kashmir. Her previous books include Languages of